A hyphen connects two elements that are joined together to function as one word. Here are some examples of hyphenated words: best-seller, two-year-old, pre-Hanukkah, and anti-racist. An em dash cannot be used as a hyphen (and a hyphen, likewise, cannot be used as a hyphen). The rul...
understand how hard some people have to work to accomplish the same things, and because of that, they push people too hard. They set the bar too high, and when people take too long or don't get things quite right, they assume it's due to a lack of effort. So they push even harde...
However, the right of self-determination of which we speak is not the right of self-determination of nations, but rather the right of self-determination of the inhabitants of every territory large enough to form an independent administrative unit. If it were in any way possible to grant this...
I may as well come right out and say exactly what I mean. I mean hard for me, a native English speaker trying to learn Chinese as an adult, going through the whole process with the textbooks, the tapes, the conversation partners, etc., the whole torturous...
I said many things to my children in the low light of the room where Aliphine was euthanized. And my children said many things to her as they fed her corn and blueberries and watermelon for the last time. The vet spoke to all of us, told us we were making the right choice, that ...
Hyphenated, past-tense. Secondly, there’s nothing “old” about the idea. In the Bible, there are many verses that tell us that the husband is to be the leader of the family (e.g. “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife ...
I realize the irony of it all talking about Chinese American identity & the English language to a class of multilingual speakers from many countries in a place not the US at a school with a hyphenated identity. I’m not so sure now how to fill those ellipses or if I should care but ...
Often my students [were] telling me “[…] this wasn’t quite right … we need to go back to that.” Her comments speak both to the value of an LGBTQ+ curriculum, as well as the importance of adapting such curriculum to the needs of students while also being cognizant that an LGBTQ...
383), “business ethics involves the application of one’s understanding of what is morally right and truthful at a time of ethical dilemma.” Given information disclosed about cybersecurity risks is informative and useful for investors when assessing the probability of future incidents, Radu and ...
This notion that he and other straight white men like him are just “Americans” with the sole right of defining our national culture needs to stop. People like Trump have always been challenged by the presence of these “others” in society. To Trump, these “hyphenated” kinds of ...